Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (1930-) is widely regarded as among the most influential - and controversial - of contemporary French intellectuals. The author of numerous, ground-breaking works on philosophy, literature, and aesthetic theory, he is a founding member of the prestigious College International de Philosophie, and in France he has played a major role in transforming the teaching of philosophy. In the United States, where he has taught regularly since the early seventies, his rigorous and allusive writings have been at the (often volatile) center of critical debates surrounding literary theories…